Chant, Sylvia
Professor Sylvia Chant
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Non LSE positions held
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Position held
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Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
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Associate Fellow
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RSA
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Fellow
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Experience keywords:
developing countries; feminisation of poverty; Philippines; gender; poverty; urbanisation; family; household livelihoods; development; migration; Gambia; households; masculinities; Latin America; urban informal economy; lone mother households; Costa Rica; Mexico; youth; housing; men
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Gender and development, broadly defined, with particular interests in families and households, lone parenthood, female-headed households, men and masculinities, migration, employment, housing, urban informal economy, poverty, feminisation of poverty, and household livelihoods. Area specialisms in Latin America (Costa Rica and Mexico), West Africa (The Gambia), and Southeast Asia (Philippines).
In 2011, Professor Chant was made a Fellow of the RSA in recognition of her expertise and exploration of gender issues within geographical development.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Consultancy
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Southeast Asia; Mexico; Latin America; Gambia; West Africa; Philippines; Costa Rica
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Languages: Italian [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Wollof [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Chant, Sylvia and Sweetman, Caroline (2012) Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development. Gender & development, 20 (3). pp. 517-529. ISSN 1355-2074 Jones, Gareth A. and Brickell, Katherine and Chant, Sylvia and Thomas de Benitez, Sarah (2012) Bringing youth into development. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781848133235 Chant, Sylvia (2012) The disappearing of 'smart economics'?: The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality: some concerns about the preparatory process and the prospects for paradigm change. Global social policy, 12 (2). pp. 198-218. ISSN 1468-0181 Chant, Sylvia (2012) Women and poverty. In: Paviani, Telmo and Chiara, Ceci, (eds.) The future of the earth. Codice/UTET, Turin, Italy. Chant, Sylvia (2011) Women, gender and urban housing in the global south. In: International encyclopedia of housing and home. Elsevier, Oxford, England. ISBN 9780444522733 Chant, Sylvia (2011) Household organisation and survival in developing countries. In: International encyclopedia of housing and home. Elsevier, Oxford, England. ISBN 9780444522733 Chant, Sylvia (2011) Book review: working the night shift: women in India's call center industry - by Reena Patel. Gender, place and culture: a journal for feminist geography, 18 (1). pp. 139-141. ISSN 0966-369X Chant, Sylvia (2011) Female headship and the 'feminisation of poverty'. In: Women worldwide: transnational feminist perspectives on women. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, New York, pp. 334-336. ISBN 9780073512297 Chant, Sylvia and Evans, Alice (2010) Looking for the one(s): young love and urban poverty in The Gambia. Environment and urbanization, 22 (2). pp. 353-369. ISSN 0956-2478 Chant, Sylvia (2010) Book review: heterosexual Africa: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS - by Marc Epprecht. Progress in development studies, 10 (4). pp. 370-375. ISSN 1464-9934 Chant, Sylvia (2010) Gendered poverty across space and time: introduction and overview. In: The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9781848443341 Chant, Sylvia, (ed.) (2010) The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781848443341 Chant, Sylvia (2010) Towards a (re)-conceptualisation of the 'feminisation of poverty': reflections on gender-differentiated poverty from the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. In: The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 111-116. ISBN 9781848443341 Chant, Sylvia (2010) The unbearable heaviness of being: reflections on female altruism in Cambodia, Philippines, The Gambia and Costa Rica. Progress and development studies, 10 (2). pp. 145-159. ISSN 1464-9934 Jones, Gareth A. and Chant, Sylvia (2009) Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction: exploring 'failure' with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana. Geoforum, 40 (2). pp. 184-196. ISSN 0016-7185 Chant, Sylvia (2009) The 'feminisation of poverty' in Costa Rica: To what extent a conundrum? Bulletin of Latin American research, 28 (1). pp. 19-43. ISSN 1470-9856 Chant, Sylvia (2009) Gender and manufacturing employment. In: Women in Asia: critical concepts in Asian studies, volume 2, redefining working women. Routledge, London, pp. 142-185. ISBN 9780415445252 Chant, Sylvia (2009) Single motherhood and poverty: the case of the Netherlands. In: Single motherhood and poverty : the case of the Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands, pp. 5-7. ISBN 9789052603254 Chant, Sylvia (2009) La ‘femenización de la pobreza’ en Costa Rica ¿un problema para las mujeres y los niños? Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 33-34 pp. 205-260. ISSN 0377-7316 Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy (2008) Geographies of development in the 21st century: an introduction to the Global South. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781847209658 Chant, Sylvia (2008) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In: Corbridge, Stuart, (ed.) Development - critical essays in human geography. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, pp. 111-132. ISBN 9780754626817 Chant, Sylvia (2008) Dangerous equations? How female-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In: Momsen, Janet, (ed.) Gender and development: critical concepts in development studies. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 397-409. ISBN 9780415422727 Chant, Sylvia (2008) Beyond incomes: a new take on the 'Feminisation of poverty'. Poverty in focus, (13). Chant, Sylvia (2008) The 'feminisation of poverty' and the 'feminisation' of anti-poverty programmes: room for revision? Journal of development studies, 44 (2). pp. 165-197. ISSN 0022-0388 Chant, Sylvia and Pedwell, Carolyn (2008) Women, gender and the informal economy: an assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward. International Labour Office, Geneva Chant, Sylvia (2008) Kobieta jako glowa gospodarstwa domowego: niewzruszone przekonania a codzienna rzeczywistosc (Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities?). Think tank feministyczny, pp. 91-130. ISSN 1464-9888 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Book review: using gender research in development, Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Bonnie McClafferty. Gender and development, 15 (1). pp. 157-159. ISSN 1355-2074 Chant, Sylvia (2007) The informal sector and employment. In: The companion to development studies. Hodder Education, London, UK, pp. 216-224. ISBN 9780340889145 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Book review: sex in development: science, sexuality and morality in global perspective. Progress in development studies, 7 (2). pp. 163-164. ISSN 1464-9934 Chant, Sylvia and Craske, Nikki (2007) Genero en Latinoamerica. Publicaciones de la Casa Chata, Mexico. ISBN 1899365532 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Gender, generation and poverty: exploring the 'Feminisation of poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843769927 Chant, Sylvia (2007) The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shantytowns. In: Women and migration in the US-Mexico borderlands. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 360-368. ISBN 9780822341185 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In: Tsompanoglou, George, (ed.) Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη και κοινοτική συνοχή. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις (Social development and community cohesion: sociological approaches). Papazisi, Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789600221657 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In: Segura, Denise A. and Zavella, Patricia, (eds.) Women and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: a reader. Duke University Press, Durham, U.S., pp. 360-368. ISBN 9780822340973 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Women and health: poor women in cities suffer most. Habitat debate, 13 (4). ISSN 1020-3613 Chant, Sylvia (2007) Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In: Tsompanoglou, George, (ed.) Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη και κοινοτική συνοχή. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις (Social development and community cohesion: sociological approaches). Papazisi, Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789600221657 Chant, Sylvia (2006) Poverty begins at home? Questioning some (mis)conceptions about children, poverty and privation in female-headed households. UNICEF, London, UK Chant, Sylvia (2006) Revisiting the 'feminisation of poverty' and the UNDP gender indices: what case for a gendered poverty index? New series working paper, 18. LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Chant, Sylvia (2006) Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In: Jaquette, Jane and Summerfield, Gale, (eds.) Women and gender equity in development theory and practice: institutions, resources and mobilisation. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 87-106. ISBN 9780822336983 Chant, Sylvia (2006) Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In: Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia and Shefner, John, (eds.) Out of the shadows: political action and the informal economy in Latin America. Penn State University Press, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 125-163. ISBN 0271027517 Chant, Sylvia (2006) Book review: women, Islam and modernity: single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia. Asian affairs, 37 (3). pp. 401-402. ISSN 0518-8784 Chant, Sylvia (2006) Book review: Women's Rights and Islamic family law: perspectives on reform. Progress in development studies, 6 (4). pp. 370-372. ISSN 1464-9934 Chant, Sylvia (2006) Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In: Cornwall, Andrea and Harrison, Elizabeth and Whitehead, Ann, (eds.) Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges. ZED, London, UK, pp. 35-47. ISBN 1842778188 Chant, Sylvia (2006) Diane Elson. In: Simon, David, (ed.) Fifty key thinkers on development. Routledge, London, pp. 84-89. ISBN 0415337895 Chant, Sylvia and Jones, Gareth A. (2005) Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: perspectives from Ghana and The Gambia. Children's Geographies, 3 (2). pp. 185-199. ISSN 1473-3277 Chant, Sylvia and Gutmann, Matthew (2005) 'Men-streaming' gender? Questions for gender and development policy on the 21st century. In: Haugerud, Angelique and Edelman, Marc, (eds.) Anthropology of development and globalisation: from classical political economy to contemporary neoliberalism. Blackwell, Massachusetts, USA, pp. 240-249. Chant, Sylvia (2005) Book review: threatening others: Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica. Bulletin of Latin American research, 24 (4). pp. 547-548. ISSN 1470-9856 Chant, Sylvia (2005) Book review: feminist futures: women, culture and development. American anthropologist, 107 (1). pp. 141-141. ISSN 0002-7294 Chant, Sylvia (2005) Book review: a courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families. Bulletin of Latin American research, 24 (1). pp. 139-141. ISSN 0261-3050 Chant, Sylvia (2005) ¿Como podemos hacer que la “feminizacion de la pobreza” resulte mas relevante en materia de politicas? ¿Hacia una "feminizacion de la responsabilidad y la obligacion"?. In: Mora, Luis and Moreno Ruiz, María José and Rohrer, Tania, (eds.) Cohesion social, politicas conciliadoras y presupuesto publico: una mirada desde el genero. UNFPA, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, pp. 201-234. Chant, Sylvia (2004) Female headship and the "feminisation of poverty". In focus: an online bulletin of the UNDP International Poverty Centre, 3 (May). pp. 3-5. Chant, Sylvia (2004) Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. IDS bulletin, 35 (4). pp. 19-26. ISSN 0265-5012 Chant, Sylvia and Moreno, Wagner (2004) "Desintegración familiar" o "transición familiar"? Perspectivas sobre cambio familiar en Guanacaste. Diálogos revista electrónica de historia, 5 (1-2: s). ISSN 1409-469X Chant, Sylvia (2004) Urban livelihoods, employment and gender. In: Gwynne, Robert. N and Cristóbal, Kay, (eds.) Latin America transformed : globalization and modernity. Hodder Arnold, London, UK, pp. 210-231. ISBN 9780340809303 Chant, Sylvia (2004) WID vs GAD. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopedia of international development. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 760-761. ISBN 041525342x Chant, Sylvia (2004) Men in crisis? In: Palmer, Steven and Molina, Iván, (eds.) The Costa Rica reader: history, culture and politics. Duke University Press, North Carolina, pp. 350-357. ISBN 9780822333722 Chant, Sylvia (2004) Women-headed households. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopedia of international development. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 761-763. ISBN 041525342X Chant, Sylvia (2003) Nuevas contribuciones al análisis de la pobreza: desafíos metodológicos y conceptuales para entender la pobreza desde una perspectiva de género. United Nations, Santiago, Chile Chant, Sylvia (2003) New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. United Nations, Santiago, Chile Chant, Sylvia (2003) Families on the verge of breakdown? Views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. In: Menjívar, Cecilia, (ed.) Through the eyes of women: gender, social networks, family and structural change in Latin America and the Caribbean. De Sitter Publications, pp. 112-151. Chant, Sylvia and Gutmann, Matthew C. (2002) "Men-streaming" gender?: questions for gender and development policy in the 21st century. Progress in development studies, 2 (4). pp. 269-282. ISSN 1464-9934 Chant, Sylvia (2002) Whose crisis? Public and popular reactions to family change in Costa Rica. In: Abel, Christopher and Lewis, Colin M., (eds.) Exclusion and engagement: social policy in Latin America. Brookings Institution, London, UK, pp. 349-377. ISBN 9781900039505 Chant, Sylvia (2002) Female employment in Puerto Vallarta: a case study. In: Grewal, Inderpal and Kaplan, Caren, (eds.) An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. McGraw-Hill, Boston, pp. 136-143. ISBN 9780071093804 Chant, Sylvia and Craske, Nikki (2002) Gender in Latin America. Latin America Bureau, London, UK. ISBN 1899365532 Chant, Sylvia (2002) The informal sector and employment. In: Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert, (eds.) The companion to developmental studies. Hodder Education, London, UK, pp. 206-215. ISBN 9780340760505 Chant, Sylvia (2002) ¿Crisis de la familia? ¿Crisis de la masculinidad? Reflexiones sobre las masculinidades, el trabajo y la familia en el noroeste de Costa Rica. In: Rodriguez Sáenz, Eugenia, (ed.) Un siglo de luchas femeninas en America Latina. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, San José, Costa Rica, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9977677077 Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy and Evans, Sally Lloyd (2001) Making a living: employment, livelihoods and the informal sector. In: McIlwaine, Cathy and Willis, Katie, (eds.) Challenges and change in Middle America: perspectives on development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Pearson Education, Harlow, pp. 110-135. ISBN 9780582404854 Chant, Sylvia (2001) Men, women and household diversity. In: McIlwaine, Cathy and Willis, Katie, (eds.) Challenges and change in Middle America: perspectives on development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Pearson Education, Harlow, UK, pp. 26-60. ISBN 9780582404854 Chant, Sylvia (2001) Lone mothers in the nations of the South. In: Smelser, Neil and Baltes, Paul, (eds.) International encyclopaedia of the social and behavioural sciences. Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 9046-9052. ISBN 9780080430768 Chant, Sylvia (2001) Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the 'feminisation of poverty' thesis. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Chant, Sylvia (2001) Hogares encabezados por mujeres ¿Los más pobres entre los pobres? Perspectives de México, Costa Rica y Filipinas. (Households headed by women: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines). In: De Villota, Paloma, (ed.) Globalización a qué precio? El impacto en las mujares del Norte y del Sur. Icaria, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 211-256. ISBN 8474265487 Chant, Sylvia (2001) Men in crisis? reflections on masculinities, work and family in northwest Costa Rica. In: Jackson, Cecile, (ed.) Men at work : labour, masculinities, development. Frank Cass, London, UK, pp. 199-218. ISBN 9780714651439 Chant, Sylvia (2000) From "woman-blind" to "man-kind": should men have more space in gender and development? IDS Bulletin, 31 (2). pp. 7-17. ISSN 0265-5012 Chant, Sylvia (2000) Men in crisis? Reflections on masculinities, work and family in north-west Costa Rica. European journal of development research, 12 (2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 0957-8811 Chant, Sylvia (2000) Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. In: Willis, Katie and Yeoh, Brenda, (eds.) Gender and migration. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, pp. 46-63. ISBN 9781840640731 Chant, Sylvia and Gutmann, Matthew (2000) Mainstreaming men into gender and development: debates, reflections and experiences. Oxfam Publishing. ISBN 9780855984519 Chant, Sylvia (2000) Las unidades domesticas encabezadas por mujeres en Mexico y Costa Rica: perspectivas populares y globales sobre el tema del las madres solas (Women-headed households in Mexico and Costa Rica: grassroots and global perspectives on lone motherhood). In: Gonzalez de la Rocha, Mercedes, (ed.) Divergencias del modelo tradicional: hogares de jefatura femenina en América Latina. El Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)/Plaza y Valdés, Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 97-102. ISBN 9684963602 Chant, Sylvia (1999) Informal sector activity in the third world city. In: Pacione, Michael, (ed.) Applied geography: principles and practice. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 509-527. ISBN 9780415182683 Chant, Sylvia (1999) Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities? In: Afshar, Haleh and Barrientos, Stephanie, (eds.) Women, globalization and fragmentation in the developing world. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 91-130. ISBN 9780333739273 Chant, Sylvia (1999) El papel de la mujer en la recesión y re-estructuración económica en México y las Filipinas (The role of women in recession and economic restructuring in Mexico and the Philippines). Generos, 5 (17). pp. 25-28. ISSN 1405-3098 Chant, Sylvia (1999) Population, migration, employment and gender. In: Gwynne, Robert and Kay, Cristóbal, (eds.) Latin America transformed: globalization and modernity. Edward Arnold, London, pp. 226-271. ISBN 0340691654 Chant, Sylvia (1999) Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. Geoforum, 22 (3). pp. 237-253. ISSN 0016-7185 Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy, (eds.) (1998) Three generations, two genders, one world: women and men in a changing century. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781856496049 Chant, Sylvia (1998) Households, gender and rural-urban migration: reflections on linkages and considerations for policy. Environment and urbanization, 10 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 0956-2478 Chant, Sylvia (1997) Marginal (m)others: lone parents and female household headship in the Philippines. European journal of development research, 9 (2). pp. 1-34. ISSN 0957-8811 Chant, Sylvia (1997) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In: Visvanathan, Nalini and Duggan, Lynne and Nisonoff, Laurie and Wiegersma, Nan, (eds.) The women, gender and development reader. Zed Books, London, UK, pp. 155-166. ISBN 9781856491426 Chant, Sylvia (1997) Gender aspects of urban economic growth and development. Research paper, 137. United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland Chant, Sylvia (1997) Género, urbanización y pobreza: el reto de los "hogares" (Gender, urbanisation and poverty: the challenge of 'the household'). Economia, sociedad y territorio, 1 (2). pp. 257-284. ISSN 1405-8421 Chant, Sylvia and Campling, Jo (1997) Women-headed households: diversity and dynamics in the developing world. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312172428 Chant, Sylvia (1997) Women-headed households: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines. IDS Bulletin, 28 (3). pp. 26-48. ISSN 0265-5012 Chant, Sylvia (1997) Solteras o 'de gegreso'? Las vias hacia la jefatura femenina en los hogares de Mexico y Costa Rica 1982-1994-(Single or return? Journeys in female household headship in Mexico and Costa Rica 1982-1994). In: Rodríguez Sáenz, Eugenia, (ed.) Entre silencios y voces: Género e historia en América Central (1975-1990). Centro Nacional para el Desarrollo de la mujer y la familia/Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, pp. 217-248. ISBN 9977676038 Chant, Sylvia (1996) Gender and tourism employment in Mexico and the Philippines. In: Sinclair, M Thea, (ed.) Gender, work and tourism. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 120-179. ISBN 9780415109857 Chant, Sylvia (1985) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? Development and change, 16 (4). pp. 635-656. ISSN 0012-155X
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AwardsLeverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2003-06; Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship, 1994-95;
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